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Morphine

2008 · 110 min

A cold, unflinching descent into addiction amid rural hardship, immersive and grimly hypnotic.

Directed by
Aleksei Balabanov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Andrei Panin
Overview
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the impressions of human suffering he turns to morphine.

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Directed by
Aleksei Balabanov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Andrei Panin
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • addiction
  • isolation
  • guilt
  • survival
  • death
Places
  • countryside
  • hospital
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action2
Horror4
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
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Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Andrei Panin, Svetlana Pismichenko, Katarina Radivojević, Aleksandr Mosin, Irina Rakshina, Sergey Garmash
Cinematography
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Runtime
110 min
Country
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Languages
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